General News

New drivers licenses that are harder to falsify and that contain personal information about the bearer will soon be issued by the state transportation authority, the Secretaria de Vialidad y Transporte de Jalisco (SVT), often referred to as simply Transito.

Consuelo Saizar, president of Mexico’s Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, hands over the official document affirming UNESCO’s recognition of mariachi as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity to Jalisco Culture Secretary Alejandro Cravioto Lebrija.

As part of the 19th International Mariachi and Charreria Festival, 129 women broke the Guinness record for the most Escaramuzas performing together at the Minerva on Saturday.

Guadalajara has lost several thousand potential jobs after Delta Airlines and Aeromexico announced a plan to build a jointly operated maintenance, repair and overhaul center at the Intercontinental Airport in Queretaro, next to that state’s Aerospace Park.

A space has been allocated inside Guadalajara’s Casa de la Cultura Jalisciense for a new mariachi academy, as well as a museum display and mariachi audiovisual archive.

Local authorities and federal security forces demonstrated improved coordination and cooperation in preventing any disturbances after a raid in Guadalajara’s Providencia neighborhood Thursday.

The one-peso bus fare hike approved across Jalisco last month has been suspended by a state court following a legal complaint by the Federation of University Students (FEU).

Peruvian writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique has been named winner of the 2012 Literary Award to be given out at Guadalajara’s International Book Fair (FIL) in November.